When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested.

He did not falter, as long as there was a path that led toward his goal.

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

I'm like Johnny Cash. I only wear black.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

It's okay to cry. There's no reason to hold back.

Climate change is the greatest threat of our time.

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

I live in Vegas, and I see people by the side of the road with cardboard signs who seem like they might have tried that spending their way out of debt thing.

When I began making films, they were just movies: 'What's the new movie? What are you doing?' Now they're called 'adult dramas.'